• Episode 340: Chevron Deference & California’s Regulatory Ottoman Empire
    Jul 4 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • St. Junípero Serra statue targeted by protests in 2020 is now settled in a new home
    • USC prof cleared
    • Natalie Bowles in the Free Press
    • Gavin Newsom had sex with his best friend’s wife, who allegedly ‘showed up passed out’ outside Newsom’s door
    • List of California state agencies
    • Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties
    • Governor Newsom statement on Supreme Court’s homeless encampments decision
    • SF City Attorney issues statement on U.S. Supreme Court decision in Grants Pass
    • Mayor London N. Breed on the Supreme Court Decision in Grants Pass
    • Mayor Bass slams Supreme Court ruling allowing failed homeless policies across the nation
    • Rob Bonta’s on-again, off-again ties to the Duongs
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Episode 339: The Weak in Gavin Newsom
    Jun 28 2024

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    Show Notes

    • Transcript of the State of the State
    • Newsom's Wife, Kids Relocating to Posh Marin County So Their Oldest Can Attend $60k/Year High School

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    46 mins
  • Episode 338: Fear of the White Black Studies Scholar
    Jun 21 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • Measure to restrict tax increases cannot appear on November ballot, California Supreme Court rules
    • Jerry West, Lakers legend and architect of ‘Showtime’ era, dies at 86
    • Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants legend and MLB all-time great, is dead
    • ‘California wins big’ with Biden’s new immigration policy shielding undocumented spouses
    • Less than half approve of Newsom, the California legislature, and their own legislators
    • A major disinformation research team's future is uncertain after political attacks
    • UC Berkeley firebomb suspect, 34, lives with parents, has PhD
    • ‘End Slavery in California Act’ clears key hurdle
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 337: Talking About Mike Rowe’s Back behind His Face
    Jun 18 2024

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    Show Notes:
    "Something to Stand For" movie

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    53 mins
  • Episode 336: Unleash the Hounds
    Jun 11 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • US VP Harris welcomes rescue of hostages, mourns innocent lives lost in Gaza
    • Harris blasts Rep. Byron Donalds for comments on Black families under Jim Crow
    • Judge halts UC academic workers’ strike, citing ‘damage to students’
    • A year after Newsom called for constitutional amendment on gun safety, no other states have joined him
    • Sacramento’s tax rebate giveaway two years ago is coming home to roost
    • Newsom’s charter school funding proposal could strip millions from 5 Bay Area counties
    • California lawmakers in standoff with Gavin Newsom over $400M loan to keep Diablo Canyon open
    • Southern Poverty Law Center labels conservative California organization a ‘hate group’
    • It’s time for corporate America to ditch the Southern Poverty Law Center
    • Celebrity chef vows to never open another business in California until they ‘fix things’
    • California GOP lawmakers boycott after Republican booted for ‘pedophile protector’ comment
    • Gov. Newsom, Democratic leaders are trying to negotiate Prop 47 reform off the November ballot
    • America’s most corrupt governor (Rep. Kevin Kiley on X)
    • Will in NR: A California campus brings anti-Israel activism to Its Jewish Studies program
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    55 mins
  • Special Episode: The Year of Living Dangerously Stupid [335]
    Jun 6 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • Mari Barke congressional testimony on the impact of illegal immigration on public education
    • Politico’s Carla Marinucci endorses Rep. Robert Garcia (D–Long Beach) on Fauci testimony
    • Back to schools: Orange County’s board of education recommendations on school reopenings during Covid
    • Hiltzik: Inside Orange County’s bizarre school-reopening vote
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 334: Unstrange Bedfellowness
    Jun 4 2024

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    Show Notes:

    • Solar project to destroy thousands of Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert
    • Rubio’s Coastal Grill, citing rising business costs, abruptly shuts down 48 restaurants in California
    • California lawmakers unveil budget rejecting Gavin Newsom spending cuts. Here’s their plan
    • New bill in California legislature would allow undocumented college students to work on campus
    • Senator Portantino, lawmakers & arts advocates rally for arts funding
    • State Senate approves Min’s voter ID protections
    • Big expansion of UC strike over pro-Palestinian protests: Irvine, San Diego, Santa Barbara next
    • Denied again: UC fails a second time to get court order to stop academic workers’ strike
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    51 mins
  • Episode 333: She Is the Eggman
    May 31 2024
    Email Us:dbahnsen@thebahnsengroup.comwill@calpolicycenter.orgFollow Us:@DavidBahnsen@WillSwaim@TheRadioFreeCAShow Notes:‘He was Mr. San Diego’: Basketball icon Bill Walton remembered for his generosity, philanthropy, civic prideLocal non-profit discusses Bill Walton's involvement on trying to curb homelessness crisisEric Abbenante on Walton on XS.F. removes controversial ‘Appeal to Heaven’ flag from Civic Center Plaza, saying it has been co-optedLifeguard who took down Pride flags at beach sues L.A. County over religious discriminationUC Irvine soothes pro-Hamas critics by hiring two of them ‘Genocide’: Oct 27 letter from UCI’s anti-Israel Jewish scholarsJewish Studies’ scholars say Jewish Studies MUST demand a ceasefire Pro-Palestinian protesters shut down Sacramento Memorial Day serviceCalifornia academic workers strike in support of pro-Palestinian protestsNewsom administration releases plan that could speed up California insurance price increasesCalifornia’s $25-an-hour minimum-wage boomerangGavin Newsom is ‘just a prick,’ Andrew Cuomo is a ‘complete jacka–,’ New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu declaresAlabama AG Marshall leads 19-state lawsuit against California & others threatening energy systemCalPERS to vote against ExxonMobil directors at shareholder meetingCalifornia launching pilot program to charge drivers for miles drivenLance Christensen: Teachers union kneecaps NewsomGavin Newsom and teachers union resolve their budget beefMeasure to restrict the rights of trans youth fails to qualify for California ballotAB 1955: Eliminate parent notification in schoolsGov. Newsom, school groups settle funding fight, with some more money coming as IOUsDemocrat California senator blasts party over pedophile jail sentence fight: ‘I’m done with us’Hank Muddmann of Turning to the Right: Open season oilAs oil revenue disappears, Long Beach may pursue new tax to help balance its budget Will living near an oil well in California give you cancer?The oil tax still in the ground
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    2 hrs and 1 min